{"id":24121,"date":"2020-05-06T18:51:58","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T17:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=24121"},"modified":"2020-05-06T18:51:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T17:51:58","slug":"complete-morons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=24121","title":{"rendered":"Complete Morons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 524px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 524\/252;margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; float: left; display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"KFC Queue\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/kfc_queue.png\" alt=\"KFC Queue\" width=\"524\" height=\"252\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/>An <a title=\"Police called to massive queues outside KFC after branch reopens in Mansfield\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nottinghampost.com\/news\/local-news\/police-called-massive-queues-outside-4108869\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article in the local Nottingham Post (have an ad blocker \u2013 you\u2019ve been warned)<\/a> reveals that police had to be called as massive queues built up outside the only branch of KFC to open up in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The combined IQ of those in the queue probably barely made it into three figures, but the really funny part is how KFC are going to handle it.<\/p>\n<p>Even at the best of times, the likelihood of going to the drive-thru only to be told \u2018we\u2019re just waiting for chicken \u2013 it\u2019ll be about 12 minutes\u2019 is about 50:50, so how on earth they can manage queues of this size is anyone\u2019s guess. Then there is the normal drive-thru procedure to consider.<\/p>\n<p>KFC specialises in attracting the kind of people who drive BMWs and Audis who haven\u2019t got a clue what they\u2019re going to order once they reach the intercom. They\u2019ll invariably have their brood in the car with them, and it&#8217;ll then turn into that scene from The Exorcist, with the driver\u2019s head spinning repeatedly through 360\u00b0 as he or she attempts to add whatever numerous items everyone wants to the order. And of course, it won\u2019t be a <strong>normal<\/strong> order \u2013 there\u2019ll be tweaks and special requests to customise it.<\/p>\n<p>One they get to the pick-up window, you can be sure there\u2019ll be no more chicken left for you. And God only knows how they\u2019ll manage with the typical two Order Bays in the car park \u2013 they need a dozen even when it\u2019s quiet.<\/p>\n<p>It does make you wonder, though, how people can get their priorities so wrong. It\u2019s the same as champing at the bit to go back to work as soon as you\u2019re allowed \u2013 even though nothing has changed with the virus pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article in the local Nottingham Post (have an ad blocker \u2013 you\u2019ve been warned) reveals that police had to be called as massive queues built up outside the only branch of KFC to open up in the region. The combined IQ of those in the queue probably barely made it into three figures, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[100,83,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assholes","category-covid-19","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}